headwaiter
Example Sentences
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Lucey’s headwaiter Don Avalier was reportedly “discovered” there, and screen-tested for a bio-pic of Rudolph Valentino.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
Ms. Peters’s grandfather was a headwaiter at Grossinger’s, the resort in the Catskills that catered to Jewish patrons, and arranged for her to audition before the tenor Jan Peerce, who sometimes sang there.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2017
Our driver accompanied us up the steps and inside, where he told the headwaiter: “I can’t leave these ladies here. They’ll never get a cab to take them home.”
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2015
The headwaiter in the lobby is called the maître d’.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999
When she was finished, she beat it out of the room so fast I didn't even get a chance to invite her to join me for a drink, so I called the headwaiter over.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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